Same substrate, many reactions: oxygen activation in flavoenzymes

E Romero, JR Gómez Castellanos, G Gadda… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Over time, organisms have evolved strategies to cope with the abundance of dioxygen on
Earth. Oxygen-utilizing enzymes tightly control the reactions involving O2 mostly by …

Monooxygenases as biocatalysts: classification, mechanistic aspects and biotechnological applications

DET Pazmiño, M Winkler, A Glieder, MW Fraaije - Journal of biotechnology, 2010 - Elsevier
Monooxygenases are enzymes that catalyze the insertion of a single oxygen atom from O2
into an organic substrate. In order to carry out this type of reaction, these enzymes need to …

SDH5, a Gene Required for Flavination of Succinate Dehydrogenase, Is Mutated in Paraganglioma

HX Hao, O Khalimonchuk, M Schraders, N Dephoure… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Mammalian mitochondria contain about 1100 proteins, nearly 300 of which are
uncharacterized. Given the well-established role of mitochondrial defects in human disease …

Enzymatic Hydroxylations of sp3-Carbons

J Munch, P Pullmann, W Zhang, MJ Weissenborn - Acs Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Enzymatic hydroxylation of activated and nonactivated sp3-carbons attracts keen interest
from the chemistry community as it is one of the most challenging tasks in organic synthesis …

[图书][B] Handbook of vitamins

J Zempleni, JW Suttie, JF Gregory III, PJ Stover - 2013 - books.google.com
Within the last few years, knowledge about vitamins has increased dramatically. This new
edition of a bestseller presents comprehensive summaries that analyze the chemical …

UbiX is a flavin prenyltransferase required for bacterial ubiquinone biosynthesis

MD White, KAP Payne, K Fisher, SA Marshall, D Parker… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Ubiquinone (also known as coenzyme Q) is a ubiquitous lipid-soluble redox cofactor that is
an essential component of electron transfer chains. Eleven genes have been implicated in …

The assembly of succinate dehydrogenase: a key enzyme in bioenergetics

B Moosavi, EA Berry, XL Zhu, WC Yang… - Cellular and molecular life …, 2019 - Springer
Succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) also known as complex II or succinate: quinone
oxidoreductase is an enzyme involved in both oxidative phosphorylation and tricarboxylic …

[HTML][HTML] The family of berberine bridge enzyme-like enzymes: A treasure-trove of oxidative reactions

B Daniel, B Konrad, M Toplak, M Lahham… - Archives of Biochemistry …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biological oxidations form the basis of life on earth by utilizing organic compounds as
electron donors to drive the generation of metabolic energy carriers, such as ATP. Oxidative …

[HTML][HTML] The devil is in the details: The chemical basis and mechanistic versatility of flavoprotein monooxygenases

M Toplak, A Matthews, R Teufel - Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
The ubiquitous flavoenzymes commonly catalyze redox chemistry such as the
monooxygenation of organic substrates and are both widely utilized in nature (eg, in primary …

Flavoprotein oxidases: classification and applications

WP Dijkman, G de Gonzalo, A Mattevi… - Applied Microbiology and …, 2013 - Springer
This review provides an overview of oxidases that utilise a flavin cofactor for catalysis. This
class of oxidative flavoenzymes has shown to harbour a large number of biotechnologically …